The Galápagos Islands are highly vulnerable to climate and environmental change, and nature-based solutions can help local communities adapt local agricultural systems. Through a comparative analysis, we evaluated the effects of three land management strategies on soil temperature, soil water availability and storage, and carbon stocks in Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos Archipelago). We installed six monitoring sites that consisted of two replicates per pathway: (i) the avoided loss of tropical forest, (ii) the conservation of scattered trees and living fences in at-risk agroforestry system, and (iii) the increase in biomass after a reduction of the grazing intensity. The monitoring sites were equipped with a dense network of rain gauges, air temperature and relative humidity sensors, and capacitance/frequency probes that registered volumetric water content and soil temperature. After pedological characterization of the soil profiles, the soil physico-chemical and hydrophysical properties were determined in laboratory. Over a period of 30 months (July 2019 to December 2021), hydrometeorological and soil environmental data were collected.

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加拉帕戈斯群岛农业景观基于自然的气候解决方案评估


加拉帕戈斯群岛极易受到气候和环境变化的影响，基于自然的解决方案可以帮助当地社区适应当地的农业系统。通过比较分析，我们评估了三种土地管理策略对圣克鲁斯岛（加拉帕戈斯群岛）土壤温度、土壤水分可用性和储存以及碳储量的影响。我们安装了六个监测点，每条路径由两个重复组成：（i） 避免了热带森林的损失，（ii） 在面临风险的农林业系统中保护了分散的树木和活栅栏，以及 （iii） 降低放牧强度后生物量的增加。监测站点配备了密集的雨量计网络、空气温度和相对湿度传感器，以及用于记录体积含水量和土壤温度的电容/频率探头。在对土壤剖面进行土壤学表征后，在实验室中测定了土壤的物理化学和水物理性质。在 30 个月（2019 年 7 月至 2021 年 12 月）期间，收集了水文气象和土壤环境数据。